Word: pocantico
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...that the Rockefeller money belonged to God and that the Rockefellers themselves were merely its stewards. "Father never allowed us to feel that we would ever have unlimited sums of money," David recalls. At seven, David spent eight hours raking leaves on the spacious grounds of the family's Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate to earn $2. Other times he pulled weeds out of the terrace of the Seal Harbor, Me., summer home at a penny a weed. He also received 25¢ a week allowance, which he was obliged to keep track of in an account book that John...
...helped to keep open. It was at one of these, the New York Museum of Natural History, where David worked for three schoolboy summers, that he acquired his passion for collecting beetles. Today he has 40,000 specimens carefully mounted on pins in cabinets in the basement of his Pocantico home. The beetles offer an easy answer for people who want to give a present to a Rockefeller; foreign bankers often arrive at the Chase New York offices bearing packages of beetles for David. "The rule is to cut the string and stand back," says David's long-suffering secretary...
...private airplane (a Convair) for campaigning. He has homes in Manhattan (his ex-wife has taken over their Fifth Avenue apartment, and he now shares the penthouse apartment of Brother Laurance), in Washington, in Maine, in Venezuela and near Tarry town, N.Y., where his family estate at Pocantico Hills spreads over 3,000 acres...
...news caught New York almost completely by surprise; even the New York Times, which is ordinarily not much interested in such mundane matters as divorce, made it the leading story of the day. Raising their five children while ranging from Manhattan to the family estate at Pocantico Hills in Westchester County to Seal Harbor, Me., to a ranch in Venezuela, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller had long appeared to be a happy couple. Last week they were tight-lipped about the specific reasons for the breakup-and so were their friends and agents...
...stockpiled seven tons of them-and coffee, sugar, powdered milk, water-in a 1,000-person fallout shelter under the New York State Capitol at Albany, first shelter built at any state capitol. (He has also built shelters under the Governor's mansion and his family estate at Pocantico Hills...